On Monday ASUG held several ASUG pre-conference sessions. This is a nice “jump-start” to the conference. I attended the hands-on session with SAP Lumira 2.0 and SAP Analytics Cloud (formerly known as BusinessObjects Cloud).

Before the conference even started, we saw on twitter some of the name changes. At the end of the show, the SAP Analytics twitter handle shared this:

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So you can see above that it is now “SAP Lumira” and SAP Analytics Cloud – no “BusinessObjects”. See the SAP press release.

First, everything in the room was set up nicely with hard-wired connections, We connected to SAP Lumira on a BW backend using Amazon Web Services. Our instructor was SAP Mentor/ASUG Volunteer Ingo Hilgefort. I can’t reasonably share 70+ slides and over 130 pages of exercises, so below are some highlights:

SAP Lumira Discovery

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One item I didn’t realize was that conversion to Lumira 2.x is one-way.

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Ingo said “Be cautious for sizing” SAP Lumira 2.0. You will want to resize before switch to production as now you have one server for both applications (Designer, Discovery)

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Above shows BW online functionality is new to Lumira Discovery

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Ingo covered some limitations with BW and Lumira Discovery. He highlighted currency and scaling factor in the discussion.

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Lumira Designer

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Lumira Designer will have the capability to export to Analysis Office.

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Lumira Designer will have the “Document” concept. This is a new concept that everyone must understand when using Designer for the first time. Ingo explained that the document feature allows teams to work on Lumira 2.0 applications.

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Ingo said single cell selection in SAP Lumira 2.0 is helpful for planning scenarios.